Nationalism and Buddhist Youth Groups in the Japanese, British, and American Empires, 1880s–1930s
In the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, Buddhists in imperial Japan, the British Raj, and the American empire developed lay-oriented youth groups. These groups’ members developed intertwined ethnoreligious and national identities informed by Buddhists’ relative status in these three...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Journal of global buddhism
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 341-359 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ Britisch-Indien
/ USA
/ Buddhism
/ Youth organization
/ Imperialism
/ History 1880-1930
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AH Religious education BL Buddhism KBM Asia KBQ North America NCD Political ethics RB Church office; congregation TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
ethno-nationalism
B United States B Japan B Colonialism B Ceylon B Hawaii B trans-imperial B British Burma B YMBA B Buddhist nationalism |
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| Summary: | In the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, Buddhists in imperial Japan, the British Raj, and the American empire developed lay-oriented youth groups. These groups’ members developed intertwined ethnoreligious and national identities informed by Buddhists’ relative status in these three empires. This article describes the trans-imperial development of early Buddhist youth groups, examines how these groups developed nationalist politics that were often intertwined with ethnic identity, and considers how the concept of "Buddhist youth" flattened differences unite lay Buddhists across various divides. |
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| ISSN: | 1527-6457 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of global buddhism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4727657 |